----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- How about some dis-anniversaries: 1954 - Horace Davis, a Marxist and an economist, fired by the University of Kansas City (now UMKC) for his political beliefs (and he had tenure) 1954 - Gardner Ackley says he would use letter of recommendation to warn universities not to hire Edward Shaffer and Myron E. Sharpe largely because they defied HUAC There are lots of good and not-so-good anniversaries to note--it just seems that economists have a collective amnesia about the bad ones--those who ignore/forget the dark past are doomed to repeat it after a fashion. Fred Lee ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]